π«π The Pay-Off (1930) delivers a gripping tale of gangsters, loyalty, and justice in the gritty underworld of early 20th-century crime. This pre-Code crime drama follows a suave mob boss trying to balance his criminal life with an emerging conscience β until betrayal changes everything.
π½οΈ Plot Summary:
Gene Fenmore runs a tight but classy criminal syndicate, operating with rules and restraint. But when a younger, more ruthless thug enters the scene, the gangβs delicate balance collapses. Loyalties are tested and blood is spilled in this early crime classic that blends sophistication with suspense.
π°οΈ Year Released: 1930
π Genre: Crime, Drama, Film Noir
π¬ Directed by: Lowell Sherman
ποΈ Starring: Lowell Sherman, Marion Nixon, William Janney
π― Why Watch It?
βοΈ A stylish and intelligent gangster film from Hollywood's pre-Code era
βοΈ Strong performances and early noir atmosphere
βοΈ Themes of morality in a lawless world
βοΈ A hidden gem for classic crime lovers
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π΅οΈπ₯ Honor among thievesβ¦ until the rules are broken. The Pay-Off (1930) is a sharp, stylish slice of early gangster cinema you wonβt want to miss.
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π½οΈ Plot Summary:
Gene Fenmore runs a tight but classy criminal syndicate, operating with rules and restraint. But when a younger, more ruthless thug enters the scene, the gangβs delicate balance collapses. Loyalties are tested and blood is spilled in this early crime classic that blends sophistication with suspense.
π°οΈ Year Released: 1930
π Genre: Crime, Drama, Film Noir
π¬ Directed by: Lowell Sherman
ποΈ Starring: Lowell Sherman, Marion Nixon, William Janney
π― Why Watch It?
βοΈ A stylish and intelligent gangster film from Hollywood's pre-Code era
βοΈ Strong performances and early noir atmosphere
βοΈ Themes of morality in a lawless world
βοΈ A hidden gem for classic crime lovers
π Donβt forget to LIKE π | COMMENT π¬ | SUBSCRIBE π for more pre-Code cinema, noir classics, and vintage crime tales!
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π΅οΈπ₯ Honor among thievesβ¦ until the rules are broken. The Pay-Off (1930) is a sharp, stylish slice of early gangster cinema you wonβt want to miss.
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00:00:00The
00:00:30Let's go.
00:01:00Oh, anything doing?
00:01:05Everything's pretty quiet.
00:01:06Yeah.
00:01:08It's kind of cold, isn't it?
00:01:10About time for long coats.
00:01:11Yeah, I'll say.
00:01:30Oh, good evening, officer.
00:01:40Evening?
00:01:41Well, it's almost morning.
00:01:43It is?
00:01:44What time is it?
00:01:4512.30.
00:01:47Say, don't you know it's against the law to be sleeping and spooning around here in the park?
00:01:52We didn't mean to break any law, officer.
00:01:54And you, young woman, you should be home in bed instead of lolling on this guy's shoulder.
00:01:59Weren't you ever in love?
00:02:01Yeah.
00:02:03That's why I'm paying alimony.
00:02:05He's got a nerve.
00:02:13I got an ocean to make him eat, that wisecrack.
00:02:16Oh, gosh, the money.
00:02:18Oh, is it there all right?
00:02:21Oh.
00:02:21Yeah, it's there.
00:02:25Gosh, I should never have gone to sleep with all that money in my pocket.
00:02:29$230 takes a long time to save.
00:02:33Do you think $230 is enough to get married on?
00:02:38Sure.
00:02:38Some people get married on nothing.
00:02:42It doesn't seem possible that tomorrow at this time, I'll be Mrs. Thomas Jonathan Brown.
00:02:49Yeah.
00:02:49Oh, squeeze me.
00:02:54When you're my wife, Nancy, you better quit working.
00:02:58As soon as I get a raise.
00:02:59Oh, I got a better idea.
00:03:01Couldn't you get me a job at that apartment house where you work?
00:03:04Then we could be together.
00:03:06Doing what?
00:03:07Why, at the switchboard.
00:03:09Well, I might arrange it.
00:03:11I've got a lot of influence with the superintendent.
00:03:14He likes me.
00:03:15He told me yesterday I was the best assistant he ever had.
00:03:17Oh, that'd be grand.
00:03:20It's one of the swellest apartment hotels in town, isn't it?
00:03:23Is it?
00:03:24And among our tenants are some of the biggest financial men of New York.
00:03:28Really?
00:03:29Yeah.
00:03:30Why, there's one apartment on the 10th floor.
00:03:32A man named Frank Smiley.
00:03:34Well, I was in there one night fixing a radiator, and they just finished playing poker.
00:03:39And I saw one fellow give another one $980 in cash and a check for $7,200.
00:03:44Where did they get so much money?
00:03:48I wish I knew.
00:03:49Here we've both been working hard every day for six months, and all we have is $230.
00:03:56Well, we're lucky to have that.
00:03:58That's right, too.
00:04:01Oh, Tommy, I love you so much.
00:04:04If anything happened to you, I'd jump in the river.
00:04:07Well, Nancy, I'd want you to.
00:04:10I couldn't stand the thought of any other fellow having you.
00:04:13Honey, there's something about you that's different.
00:04:18Well, squeeze me.
00:04:23Stick him up.
00:04:24Stick him up and be quick about it.
00:04:26You want to keep all your parts together?
00:04:27Oh, you're kidding me.
00:04:29Come across.
00:04:30Let him have the money, Tommy.
00:04:31He might kill you.
00:04:32Oh, no, we can't get married, Tommy.
00:04:37Oh, stay single.
00:04:39You're a lot better off, and you're money ahead.
00:04:41And now, not a yearbott of either one of you.
00:04:43Hold your hands up until I'm out of sight.
00:04:45You ought to keep that schoolboy complexion.
00:04:54Tommy, squeeze me.
00:04:55You think I want to get shot?
00:04:59You can put your hands down now.
00:05:01He's gone.
00:05:02Oh, Tommy, you certainly were brave.
00:05:05Why, you even kidding with him.
00:05:06I thought he was fooling.
00:05:09Oh, Tommy, what are we going to do?
00:05:11We're going to get married just as we planned.
00:05:15I've got an idea.
00:05:17You come with me.
00:05:24Say, listen.
00:05:26As sure as my name is Frank Smiley,
00:05:28if you treat him square, they'll be square with you.
00:05:31Oh, now I know why you gave us such a good dinner, Frank.
00:05:34He's in the market for some jewelry.
00:05:36Cheap.
00:05:36Now, Emery, you got me wrong.
00:05:39I just wanted to give you folks a nice, good home-cooked dinner.
00:05:43And for every raisin in the pudding,
00:05:45you expect a carrot's worth of diamonds for a nickel, huh?
00:05:47Say, you know I'm giving you more than the value for the stuff than you're giving me.
00:05:55Then why don't you get it at a regular place?
00:05:57Oh, I want to give you boys a chance.
00:06:00This is Emery you're talking to.
00:06:02Come on, let's sit down and finish the rubber.
00:06:05Rocky's been detained a few minutes.
00:06:06He's on his way upstairs now.
00:06:08Good, I hope Gene gets here.
00:06:09I want to get some sleep tonight.
00:06:11My deal.
00:06:13You can't get any sleep in this man's town in the daytime.
00:06:15I guess I'm not a night lifer.
00:06:16Well, you won't get any sleep tonight either.
00:06:19We've got a date at the club later.
00:06:21We always have a date somewhere.
00:06:29Hello, Lola.
00:06:30Everybody here?
00:06:31Yes, sir.
00:06:35Hello, everybody.
00:06:36Hello, Rocky.
00:06:37Hello, Rocky.
00:06:38Hello, Doc.
00:06:39Who are you expecting?
00:06:41You.
00:06:41You better be.
00:06:42Gene here yet?
00:06:43No.
00:06:44Why didn't you come to dinner tonight, Rocky?
00:06:46Sorry, I couldn't make it, Frank.
00:06:47Say, where is Gene?
00:06:48It's nearly one o'clock.
00:06:49He's out stepping with some high hats.
00:06:51He phoned he'd be late.
00:06:53I wonder what Gene wants to see me about tonight, Rocky.
00:06:56How should I know?
00:06:57You ought to.
00:06:58You're his right hand.
00:07:00Listen, I'm both in his hands, only he doesn't know it.
00:07:03Someday I'll tell him, and he'll get a surprise.
00:07:05Oh, so will you, Manny.
00:07:06Now, don't do anything right away.
00:07:09I think maybe Gene has a business proposition.
00:07:12He wants to talk over with me tonight.
00:07:13Don't be a silly old boy.
00:07:15You know I love you.
00:07:16Do you?
00:07:17Don't you know it?
00:07:18You sure?
00:07:18Don't you know it?
00:07:22Gene ought to see that.
00:07:24He'd love Rocky more than ever.
00:07:26Oh, Gene doesn't care.
00:07:28When a gentleman is finished with a lady,
00:07:30if he is a gentleman, he'll provide a successor, huh, Frankie?
00:07:33Yes, that sometimes reduces the pain of separation.
00:07:36Oh, and the course.
00:07:37I wouldn't be surprised if Gene gave us all the air one of these days.
00:07:43Who's play?
00:07:44It's yours.
00:07:46I think Gene is getting ready to quit the game.
00:07:48Oh, I wouldn't say that.
00:07:49He couldn't be such a success if he didn't like it a little bit.
00:07:52Well, come on, now.
00:07:53Watch your playing, Emery.
00:07:54You know, I think Gene likes to think of himself as some sort of a modern Robin Hood.
00:07:58You ever notice he never pulls a job against a man who isn't going to be crooked himself?
00:08:01I wonder where he gets all, oh, pardon me, that romantic stuff.
00:08:06When you're in a racket, you're in a racket.
00:08:09Gene has too many scruples for his own good.
00:08:11I, you think, he was a brigadier general and I was a buck private.
00:08:14Well, aren't you?
00:08:15Gene's the brains of this outfit.
00:08:17Yeah, well, listen.
00:08:18I can plan the breaks as well as he can.
00:08:21And any time he wants to take a long trip,
00:08:23little me is all ready to take charge of this outfit.
00:08:26Listen, how can I think how to play when you're all talking like that?
00:08:29Why don't you play marbles then?
00:08:31The doctor wouldn't annoy you.
00:08:33Hello, Gene.
00:08:34Come in.
00:08:35Hello, Frank.
00:08:37Well, hello, Frank.
00:08:39Sorry I'm late, Frank.
00:08:41Don't let me disturb you, Rocky.
00:08:42You didn't disturb me.
00:08:43I got up to get a light.
00:08:45How are you, Donnie?
00:08:46Sleepy, Frank.
00:08:47It's going to be a long session.
00:08:49Not long.
00:08:50Why don't you run home to bed?
00:08:51Huh?
00:08:53Well, boys, I've got something that's awfully good news.
00:08:56Something you like, Frank.
00:08:57Yeah?
00:08:58I've decided that our friend Coleman, the jeweler,
00:09:01should part with some of his ill-gotten game.
00:09:03Coleman?
00:09:04Coleman?
00:09:05Gene, if you clean out Coleman,
00:09:08I promise to pay full value for the stuff.
00:09:11Now, I promise.
00:09:12Why is Coleman's stuff so valuable?
00:09:14His jewelry's no better than anyone else's.
00:09:16But he ran me out of business once
00:09:18by paying the boys 10 to 15% more.
00:09:20He broke me.
00:09:21Boys, I'll give you 20% more for Coleman's stuff.
00:09:27Well, we'll make that concession.
00:09:28Let him have it.
00:09:29Oh, Genie, you don't know what you're doing for me.
00:09:33I've waited 25 years to see Coleman cleaned out.
00:09:38He's been getting away with murder for years.
00:09:40That's a bargain, Frank.
00:09:41A bargain?
00:09:42Sure, it's a bargain.
00:09:44He's a dirty crook.
00:09:46When do we pull the trick?
00:09:51Oh, sometime next week.
00:09:52I'll give you the layout in a few days.
00:09:54I'll tell you what, boys.
00:09:55I've got something special I'll open for this occasion to celebrate.
00:09:59Come on, Rocky.
00:10:00But, Frank, we can't.
00:10:01Why not?
00:10:02We've got a date at the Royal.
00:10:03I'm not going to the club.
00:10:08Tell Pete I'll be there later.
00:10:11I want to stick around and see what else Genie has on his chest.
00:10:15Goodbye.
00:10:16Good night.
00:10:17Good night, everybody.
00:10:17Good night, Mom.
00:10:18Good night.
00:10:19You haven't changed your mind about wanting to see me, have you?
00:10:22No.
00:10:24What's the matter?
00:10:25Isn't Rocky all you expected him to be?
00:10:26Oh, yes.
00:10:27Yes, but I just hoped that you'd miss me, Gene.
00:10:30Well, I haven't.
00:10:31You like Rocky.
00:10:32You picked him.
00:10:33Now you, uh, be happy.
00:10:39Not butting in on anything, I hope?
00:10:41Not at all.
00:10:46Say, we're not going to have any trouble over it, Don, are we?
00:10:49Trouble?
00:10:51Why, should we?
00:10:53Well, you're sensible.
00:10:54I thought you might be jealous.
00:10:56Of you?
00:10:57Mm-hmm.
00:10:59But jealousy implies equality.
00:11:02Oh, so you don't think I'm your equal, eh?
00:11:04Not in the least, socially.
00:11:07But that need to interfere with our business relations.
00:11:11If you know as much as I do, you'd be running this outfit instead of me.
00:11:14Maybe I will be, sooner than you think.
00:11:25Oh, be quiet, Rocky.
00:11:27Oh, he doesn't know what he's saying, Gene.
00:11:29No, don't I?
00:11:30Well, let me tell you something.
00:11:31You're either for your swell society friends or you're for us.
00:11:33The gang don't like it.
00:11:35They're getting fed up on you.
00:11:37How would you know whether there was a million dollars' worth of jewelry lying around or a half a million dollars' worth of bonds if I wasn't mixing with a little class?
00:11:44We've got our own crowd to find that out.
00:11:46What are we paying finders for?
00:11:48Dot, Margie, and Emery, and a couple of dozen others.
00:11:51And keeping up that royal club.
00:11:53An idea of yours that costs us plenty.
00:11:55For what?
00:11:56So you can plant your ritzy friends.
00:11:59Our payroll's big enough to crack a safe for.
00:12:02You can't be in this racket and have a code of ethics.
00:12:05I never got an invitation to the Queen's reception.
00:12:08But I know my business.
00:12:09We want a leader with a couple of guns in his hands.
00:12:13Like you.
00:12:13Well, the gang like me, and that's good enough.
00:12:17Well, let me tell you something.
00:12:19I don't go in for murder, if that's what you mean.
00:12:22And while I'm running this outfit, you lay off the gunplay.
00:12:27Now we'll make a little poker, eh?
00:12:29What do you say?
00:12:30You know, you trimmed me good last time.
00:12:32All right, I'll let you win your money back, Frank.
00:12:34Come on, Rocky.
00:12:35You don't mind, Doc?
00:12:36No.
00:12:37No, I've got something exciting to do.
00:12:39What?
00:12:40I'm going into your room and take a nap.
00:12:43Well, who's going to be a banker?
00:12:46Let Frank be a banker.
00:12:47It's his house.
00:12:48Nobody else can be a banker.
00:12:50Every time I'm a banker, I lay out more money than I take in.
00:12:53Oh, go on, Frank.
00:12:53Don't be a piker.
00:12:54All right, but I want cash in advance.
00:12:57No more checks.
00:12:59Mr. Smiley, are you insinuating?
00:13:01I'm not insinuating nothing.
00:13:03But I had a little trouble with a certain check two weeks ago.
00:13:06I told you we were going to play for fun.
00:13:08Yeah, sure we are.
00:13:08We're going to play for buttons, don't we, Frank?
00:13:10Come on, now.
00:13:11What's everybody doing?
00:13:13Somebody doing something?
00:13:14Yes.
00:13:15Yes.
00:13:15Yes.
00:13:16Yes.
00:13:16Yes.
00:13:16Yes.
00:13:16All right, raise it $50.
00:13:18What do you mean, you raise it?
00:13:20Nobody's opened yet.
00:13:21What?
00:13:21You mean to say that nobody's opened the first plot?
00:13:23Oh, now, look close.
00:13:24Look close.
00:13:25Hey, somebody must have opened it.
00:13:26Yes.
00:13:27Nope.
00:13:28Oh, all right.
00:13:29I said I'd never open on two little pair again, but I will.
00:13:31I'll make it easy for you, fellas.
00:13:32I'll open it for two buttons.
00:13:38Pick them up!
00:13:39Be quick about it if you want to keep all your parts together.
00:13:42Now, you guys, all stand up and keep your hands in the air.
00:13:46Well, I'm tired sitting anyway.
00:13:48Now, stand over there and face the wall.
00:13:50Quick!
00:13:50Come in, honey.
00:14:06Go frisk them.
00:14:06Huh?
00:14:07See if they got any guns and take them away from them.
00:14:09Frisk them!
00:14:09Oh, frisk them!
00:14:12You haven't got any.
00:14:13Well, go on to the next one, then.
00:14:15Go on, honey.
00:14:15Don't be afraid.
00:14:16You guys try to get funny, and I'll shoot.
00:14:21I'm desperate, and I mean it.
00:14:22I wouldn't get one, anything.
00:14:30Can I help you?
00:14:31Put your hands up!
00:14:31What do I do with them?
00:14:32Bring them to me.
00:14:34Gee, you guys must be soldiers.
00:14:36Soldiers?
00:14:37Hey, you bitch, step out here.
00:14:39You mean me, buddy?
00:14:40Get your hands in the air.
00:14:41Come on, be quick about it if you want to keep all your parts together.
00:14:44Go through his pocket, honey, and get his robe.
00:14:46Oh, he's got a lot.
00:14:53Just peel off $230 and put the rest back.
00:14:55Keep looking at the wall, you fellas, if you want to keep all your parts together.
00:14:57He's got $410.
00:14:59Just peel off $230 and put the rest back.
00:15:01That's all we want.
00:15:02Thanks.
00:15:03Now put ours in my coat pocket.
00:15:04Don't you think we'd better take it all for our trouble?
00:15:06No.
00:15:07Now, you big stiff, you go over and trace the wall to the rest of them guys.
00:15:09We get all we want this evening.
00:15:10Go on.
00:15:11Bring the guns along, honey.
00:15:12We'll leave them outside.
00:15:13Now, not a mover, I sound out of you guys for five minutes if you want to keep those schoolboy complexions.
00:15:17Come on.
00:15:18Oh, he's a good guy.
00:15:19You're locked me in a pocket here.
00:15:21Now, Captain, just a second.
00:15:23Let's see who he's first off.
00:15:26If you don't mind.
00:15:27Not at all.
00:15:28I'm glad to get rid of it.
00:15:30They're just a couple of kids.
00:15:32Highway robbers.
00:15:33Honest, mister.
00:15:33Hey, we're not professional, Crook.
00:15:35Why, you surprised me.
00:15:36I'm going to notify the police.
00:15:38Don't call the cops.
00:15:39I want to tell you something.
00:15:41This guy here is a thief and he stuck me up in the park and I...
00:15:43Oh, don't give me that.
00:15:45Go on, Frank.
00:15:46Call the cops.
00:15:46Just a minute, Frank.
00:15:47Wait a minute.
00:15:48Before you call him, let her get away because it's all my fault.
00:15:51I got her into this.
00:15:52I don't care what you do to me, but let her...
00:15:53Now, take it easy, son.
00:15:55Frank, will you turn to those guns?
00:15:56Sure.
00:15:57And have you the villainous looking weapon that Desperado held us up with?
00:16:01Now, I'm going to let you go, young lady, but don't try any fastens on me.
00:16:04No, sir.
00:16:05All right, you stay right here while I operate on this big birthday.
00:16:08Well, there's nothing in it.
00:16:11So there isn't.
00:16:13You've got to hand it over.
00:16:13They've got nerve.
00:16:14I'll say they have.
00:16:16What are we going to do with them?
00:16:17Hand them over to the cops.
00:16:19The professional crooks in this town are getting too much competition.
00:16:23What was the idea, son?
00:16:24Only taking 230.
00:16:25Well, because that was all he took from me and I just wanted to get my money back.
00:16:29That's all.
00:16:30That guy's a thief.
00:16:31If I tell you.
00:16:31No.
00:16:33Yeah.
00:16:33Say, give a look.
00:16:36This kid works here in the house.
00:16:38Yes, I remember.
00:16:39Came up one night to fix the radiator.
00:16:41Why the nerve at that, son.
00:16:42Do you work in a building?
00:16:43Sure I do.
00:16:44Tom, he was only taking his own money because that man took it from him.
00:16:48Oh, tell that to the cops and give them a big laugh.
00:16:51Just a minute.
00:16:57What was the idea of sticking up those kids with that money?
00:16:59Well, I was walking over here tonight through the park and I heard the kid talking about getting married and he saved up 230 bucks to go on a honeymoon and tie the knot.
00:17:09Well, I thought I'd take it away from them, that was all.
00:17:12It was just a gag.
00:17:14Just naturally mean.
00:17:17That's me, Gene.
00:17:20Well, I'm glad to see you're getting onto yourself.
00:17:23Frank, do you mind if I see these kids alone?
00:17:26No, not a bit.
00:17:27Sure.
00:17:27Come on, Henry.
00:17:28Perfectly all right.
00:17:29Come on, Rocky.
00:17:30He's the precious kid I ever knew.
00:17:33Say, Gene.
00:17:34Hmm?
00:17:35Those kids almost pulled off a pretty neat job tonight.
00:17:37They showed promise.
00:17:38Why not make friends with them?
00:17:42You're all right, kid.
00:17:44Well, you've got a little dirt on your shoulder.
00:17:49Go on, Rocky.
00:17:50Well, you, uh, you two bandits must have had a strenuous evening, holding up four men.
00:18:03You tired?
00:18:05Sit down.
00:18:07Mister, you're not going to turn this over to the cops.
00:18:09Well, it all depends.
00:18:11How old are you?
00:18:12Twenty.
00:18:13How old are you?
00:18:14Eighteen.
00:18:16I suppose you've known each other for years, your old friend.
00:18:18We were going to get married tomorrow.
00:18:21Well, don't your parents object to your getting married so young?
00:18:24Well, you see, my folks live in Ohio, and I work at Gimbel's.
00:18:28You don't commute?
00:18:30Oh, no.
00:18:32How much money do you earn at Gimbel's?
00:18:34Fourteen dollars a week.
00:18:35My job pays me 50 a month, my room, and tips.
00:18:38You have a position.
00:18:40Where are your parents?
00:18:42Oh, I haven't gotten any.
00:18:43Not for years.
00:18:43No?
00:18:44No.
00:18:45My old man married a widow in Danbury, Connecticut, and he don't care anymore.
00:18:49I see.
00:18:51Well, you're both sort of orphans, aren't you?
00:18:55Well, so am I.
00:18:57We're kind of in the same boat.
00:18:59You won't have us arrested, will you, mister?
00:19:01He won't have us arrested.
00:19:01Now, now, you committed a very serious offense coming in here tonight, holding up four men with a revolver.
00:19:07That's highway robbery.
00:19:09That means 15 years in prison.
00:19:10Oh, you wouldn't send us to prison for that winter.
00:19:12No, I like you.
00:19:14I like you both.
00:19:17How would you like to work for me?
00:19:19Oh, we'd like it, wouldn't we, Nancy?
00:19:21Well, I'd like to help you, and I can pay you much more than you'd earn in your present, Charles.
00:19:26What do you say?
00:19:27Well, what do we have to do?
00:19:29Well, I'll find out that when I see what you're best fitted for.
00:19:33In the meantime, you'll go home with me tonight.
00:19:35I live alone.
00:19:36It'd be nice to have you.
00:19:37Sort of like a family.
00:19:40What do you say?
00:19:41Well, I guess it'll be all right.
00:19:44What do you say, boss?
00:19:45Oh, I say sure.
00:19:47But before I go anyplace, I'll have to stop by Mr. Dillon's.
00:19:49Mrs. Dillon's?
00:19:50Yeah, I'll have to get my clothes.
00:19:52Oh, well, don't worry about that.
00:19:54I'll send it to those.
00:19:55Now, in the meantime, I'll say goodnight to my host, and then we'll go.
00:20:05He's awful nice, isn't he?
00:20:06Yeah, isn't he?
00:20:08I think so.
00:20:11Well, Miss Nancy Porter.
00:20:41Miss Nancy, are these all for me?
00:21:00Sure.
00:21:01The whole blessed lot.
00:21:05Gee, Nancy, you look swell.
00:21:07Isn't Gene wonderful to buy us all these new clothes?
00:21:13Well, he certainly has good taste.
00:21:15Everything he bought us, I'd have picked out myself.
00:21:17I can't help but think of those poor girls down at Gimbal.
00:21:24Well, this life may be all right for a woman, but a week of it's got me kind of restless.
00:21:29I wish he'd put me to work.
00:21:30He will as soon as he finds out what we're to do.
00:21:33You don't think it'll be something we can't do, do you, Nancy?
00:21:37Why, no.
00:21:38He wouldn't expect us to work at a trade we've never learned.
00:21:40I think he's going to let us choose a profession and study it.
00:21:43What would you like to be, Tommy?
00:21:45Well, I wouldn't like to be a gambler.
00:21:47Tommy, you don't mean...
00:21:48I don't know what I mean, but I got suspicions.
00:21:51Oh, Tommy, you're crazy.
00:21:52I don't want you to mention those suspicions of yours again.
00:21:55Gene is nice.
00:21:56He's been wonderful to us.
00:21:57Oh, it's Gene now, is it?
00:21:59Oh, you're jealous and ungrateful, Tommy Brown.
00:22:01I admire Mr. Fenmore, and I respect him.
00:22:04You're just like all women.
00:22:06You're weak.
00:22:07I hope you're not going to let a few fine clothes make a demimonde out of you.
00:22:12Why, Tommy Brown, don't you call me a demimonde.
00:22:15Well, maybe you're not yet.
00:22:17But I'm a man, and I know how these things start.
00:22:20Oh, you know I'm not a demimonde.
00:22:22Yes, honey.
00:22:24Well, then squeeze me.
00:22:29I know Gene's a good man.
00:22:31You know, a woman can tell whether a man's all right or not with her intuition.
00:22:35All right.
00:22:36If your intuition says so, maybe he is.
00:22:39Oh, Mousy, has Mr. Fenmore any more socks with holes in him?
00:22:43I don't think so.
00:22:44Well, I didn't look in his wastebasket yet this morning.
00:22:48Oh, does he throw them away when I get home?
00:22:49Sure.
00:22:51And the good thing it is for me that he does.
00:22:58Well, here I am back in the bosom of my family.
00:23:00How are you, Tommy?
00:23:01Hi, I'm all right.
00:23:02How's the little girl banded this morning?
00:23:03I never was so happy in my life.
00:23:06I'm glad to hear it.
00:23:07What are you doing with my shirt?
00:23:08Sewing on the buttons.
00:23:09Well, now that's sweet of you, Nancy.
00:23:11She's a darling, isn't she, Tommy?
00:23:12Yeah.
00:23:14You know, I never had anyone sew on my buttons.
00:23:17How'd you keep up your pants?
00:23:18Sew them on yourself?
00:23:23My tailor does that.
00:23:25But I like to have Nancy do it.
00:23:27I'd love to do it.
00:23:29Well, just for that, I'm going to give you a present.
00:23:31Oh, Gene.
00:23:32Another present.
00:23:34Mm-hmm.
00:23:34Something every day.
00:23:35Well, it isn't.
00:23:37I've had this for a long time.
00:23:38I don't often come across a piece that I really like.
00:23:42But when I do, I keep it for an occasion just such as this.
00:23:45I hope you like bracelets.
00:23:47Oh, it's diamonds.
00:23:49Is it real?
00:23:51Oh, genuine anyone's stuff, Tommy.
00:23:52Oh, Gene.
00:23:54Dear beautiful old Tommy, isn't it lovely?
00:23:57Oh, I never dreamed of having such a thing.
00:24:00Oh, thank you.
00:24:02Yeah, it is nice, Mr. Fenmore.
00:24:04Yes, because I could tell you it belonged to my mother, but it didn't.
00:24:08And you may call me Gene, too, Tommy.
00:24:10Thanks.
00:24:11Oh, Gene, why are you so good to us?
00:24:14Well, just because I'm selfish.
00:24:16And it gives me great pleasure to see you so happy and beautiful.
00:24:19The car is waiting downstairs for the kids.
00:24:21They'll be right down.
00:24:22Wait, I'll get you a coat.
00:24:23Yes, sir.
00:24:32Won't you come with us?
00:24:35Not today, dear.
00:24:37Oh, Gene, how can I ever thank you for everything?
00:24:40Just by being the lovely little thing that you are.
00:24:43Being my little pal.
00:24:45Make the new man of me.
00:24:46I'll always try to be.
00:24:49Coming, Nancy?
00:24:50Yes, Tommy.
00:24:55There you are, dear.
00:24:57So.
00:24:58Good-bye, Gene.
00:25:00Good-bye, Gene.
00:25:00Tell Eddie not to drive too fast.
00:25:02All right.
00:25:03Good-bye.
00:25:03Good-bye.
00:25:03Good-bye.
00:25:14Good-bye.
00:25:15So you fall for the little girl, eh?
00:25:18I see it coming the first day she was here.
00:25:22You see a lot, don't you?
00:25:24Well, I see that she's more than half in love with you, too.
00:25:28Not in love at all.
00:25:31She's just dazzled by a little luxury.
00:25:33Ah, don't kid yourself, Chief.
00:25:36I'm not.
00:25:38She's in love with that boy.
00:25:40She's in love with Tommy.
00:25:42She may not be as sure of her she was a couple of weeks ago, but I know.
00:25:45Well, you'll offer a simper sometimes for a guy with brains.
00:25:51Maybe.
00:25:53But for once in my life, I'm thinking of someone else.
00:25:56I'd like to see that kid happy.
00:26:00If you could make a girl happy, if you try.
00:26:04You know, it's my opinion you can't fight love.
00:26:08It always licks you.
00:26:11Now, don't you give up that kid if you really want her.
00:26:15And don't get on too high ground with women, Chief.
00:26:19It doesn't pay.
00:26:22I had a chance once when I was a young buckle.
00:26:26I passed it up because I thought I wasn't good enough for her.
00:26:31You're not sorry, are you?
00:26:33You bet I'm sorry.
00:26:35Made a bum out of me.
00:26:38And later she married a couple.
00:26:41That was worth sacrificing myself for, I'll tell the world.
00:26:45I wish I could get out of this racket.
00:26:50You've been wishing that a long time, Chief, but you can't do it.
00:26:55They'd never let you go running around the streets with all you know.
00:27:00Don't I know it?
00:27:02But you got out and you're still drawing your breath?
00:27:04Yes.
00:27:05I got out because they all think I'm too old-fashioned with my methods.
00:27:12But I'm safe because they think I didn't want to get out.
00:27:17But I take good care never to be seen with any very respectable folks.
00:27:23running around with respectable people and is liable to rouse suspicions.
00:27:28Sure it does.
00:27:30Why, your own gang is kind of suspicious of you,
00:27:34playing around with a lot of swells.
00:27:37Well, I'm going to give them a good eyeful tonight.
00:27:40I'm taking a rich banker and his party down to the club.
00:27:43Well, they've heard that it's a hangout for underworld characters.
00:27:47You don't say so.
00:27:49Well, I just breeze in and give you and your rich friends the once over.
00:27:54Yeah, do that.
00:27:55Do that, Monty.
00:27:56And we'll have a little laughter when I see you there.
00:27:58It'll be funny, won't it?
00:27:59Tell me, are all these people underworld characters?
00:28:28I doubt it.
00:28:29They don't look intelligent enough to be crooks today.
00:28:46You'd never take change for the sort of person he is to look at him, would you?
00:28:50Why don't you look at somebody else for change?
00:28:52I think you're still stuck on that guy.
00:28:53Oh, don't be stupid.
00:28:54He's head over heels in love with that girl, Nancy.
00:28:57Yeah, well, at least she's got a brain that turns over occasionally.
00:29:03Now, Tommy's a prized sap by us all.
00:29:06He's a prized sap if he thinks he can keep his girl with jeep warning her.
00:29:09Well, it's about time for the gathering of the Klan.
00:29:26Yeah, our brigadier general knows it, too.
00:29:31He's getting ready to send his slumming party home.
00:29:34Come on, Emery, let's go.
00:29:36We'll meet you outside.
00:29:38All right.
00:29:38Hello, Frank.
00:29:53Hello, Rocky.
00:29:54Hello, Rocky.
00:29:55Hello, Jack.
00:29:55What?
00:29:56Hello, Emery.
00:29:57Rocky, where's Jean?
00:29:58She's outside.
00:29:59Staying with us and Frank.
00:29:59He'll be on a minute.
00:30:01Cigarette?
00:30:02No.
00:30:02I wish he'd hurry.
00:30:07I'll be late.
00:30:08You'll be right, Em.
00:30:09I sort of expected to see a hold-up or a shifting or something awful in this terrible place, Mr. Benmore.
00:30:15Well, I guess it's a dull night.
00:30:17But I know it's one of the toughest places in New York because I had it straight from someone who knows.
00:30:21Well, I told the ladies that.
00:30:22I wouldn't let them wear their real jewels.
00:30:25I mean, they'd take them off before starting out.
00:30:27Very wise.
00:30:30This jewelry we have on is real Woolworths.
00:30:32Yes, I noticed that.
00:30:34But I hope you didn't leave your good things around for some porch climber to pick up.
00:30:38Oh, no.
00:30:38I always keep mine in a sewing basket in my bedroom.
00:30:41How original.
00:30:42I hope you have a clever hiding place for your things, Mrs. Allen.
00:30:44Oh, I always toss mine in an old hatbox on the top of my closet.
00:30:47A hatbox?
00:30:48Yes.
00:30:48Perfectly naive.
00:30:50Nothing useful to go into a safe so often.
00:30:52Why, sir, who would ever think of a hatbox?
00:30:53Nobody ever thinks that.
00:30:55Yes.
00:30:55I must remember that.
00:30:57Thank you so much.
00:31:00Can we rock him somewhere?
00:31:01Thank you, Noah.
00:31:02I'm walking home.
00:31:02Good night.
00:31:03Good night, Mr. Seldon.
00:31:03Good night.
00:31:04Good night, Mr. Seldon.
00:31:06Good night, old man.
00:31:07Good night, Mr. Seldon.
00:31:08And you came along.
00:31:09Good night.
00:31:10Good night, Mr. Seldon.
00:31:11Good night, Gene.
00:31:12I want to thank you for a very interesting evening, buddy.
00:31:16Drop into the bank tomorrow.
00:31:17I'll come in in the morning.
00:31:18Goodbye.
00:31:19Good night.
00:31:22This is the first time I made you out, sister.
00:31:24What do you think of the choice?
00:31:25This is the other way.
00:31:27Everyone is so impressive.
00:31:28This business is great.
00:31:29It's amazing.
00:31:30educators are amazing.
00:31:32What else is it for?
00:31:33Go to hell.
00:31:34BuΠ½ΠΎΡΡΡΡu to fair.
00:31:35It's very cute, my wife.
00:31:36Very cute.
00:31:38And you want to eat?
00:31:40Hey, girl.
00:31:41How about this?
00:31:42You got the things they offer?
00:31:44Yeah, yeah there, Chief.
00:31:46You know, Boyd, you've been a little active, like the headboarders getting annoyed.
00:31:49Well, that's too bad.
00:31:51The Goldman thing is sort of tricky.
00:31:53My opinion will be wise and quiet down for a while.
00:31:56He'll be in business next year.
00:31:58Next year?
00:31:59That's a long way.
00:32:00I don't know.
00:32:01I don't know.
00:32:02I don't know.
00:32:03I don't know.
00:32:04I don't know.
00:32:05I don't know.
00:32:06I don't know.
00:32:07I don't know.
00:32:08I don't know.
00:32:09I don't know.
00:32:10I don't know.
00:32:11That's a long way off.
00:32:12How do we eat in the meantime?
00:32:13We're good, by all right.
00:32:14We don't want to lay off, Chief.
00:32:15Just call them jobs a pipe.
00:32:17We are so married.
00:32:18It's a pipe, I'm telling you.
00:32:19Nasty job right off Broadway.
00:32:21Think about planning.
00:32:22I'm gonna crack that dump with my hands, Todd.
00:32:25You're wonderful, Rocky.
00:32:26You must be.
00:32:27You admit it.
00:32:28It's pretty soft you to sit there and plan these things.
00:32:30We're the boys that have to do them.
00:32:31My planning has been pretty successful up to now.
00:32:33Now, don't quarrel, boys.
00:32:34The money's waiting for you as soon as you deliver the stuff.
00:32:37Let up, Boyd.
00:32:38And there's a tray of...
00:32:40...special stones that Coleman always keeps in his safe.
00:32:45He only shows it to certain customers.
00:32:48Get me those and I'll pay you 20,000 more.
00:32:57Now, boys, you know your business better than I do, so I'll be going.
00:33:01And don't go through the restaurant, Frank.
00:33:03Go the other way, if you don't mind.
00:33:04Good night.
00:33:05Good night, Boyd.
00:33:06Good night.
00:33:07Good night, Frank.
00:33:08So long, Frank.
00:33:09And, Rocky.
00:33:10Don't forget to get that pearl ring.
00:33:12Because I've sold it already.
00:33:14Okay, Frank.
00:33:16Go on.
00:33:17Good night, Frank.
00:33:18Good night.
00:33:19Say, I've got an idea how to get that tray of special shiners under Coleman's safe.
00:33:24How?
00:33:25Since don't get down there and do whatever suspects.
00:33:27Oh, we've got to know what suspects.
00:33:29The kids?
00:33:30Tommy and Nancy?
00:33:31No.
00:33:33Those kids are not in this game.
00:33:35They're straight, and I'm going to keep them that way.
00:33:37Oh, so you're going to keep little Mama pure for your own purposes, eh?
00:33:40What do you mean by that?
00:33:42Well, everybody knows you're stuck on the girl.
00:33:45That's why you don't want to pull this Coleman job.
00:33:47She's probably not used to a gangster sweetheart.
00:33:50And you're going to go straight.
00:33:52Now, look here.
00:33:54Maybe this organization is getting too small to hold you and me.
00:33:59Maybe one of us had better plan on getting out.
00:34:02Well, then, maybe it'd better be you.
00:34:04If you're too yellow to go through with this Coleman job,
00:34:07I'll do it myself.
00:34:11I didn't say I wouldn't go through with it.
00:34:13I said it was wiser to lay off.
00:34:18You boys are set on doing it now.
00:34:20Yes, come on.
00:34:21Let's do it.
00:34:22Let's do it.
00:34:23You know what you want to do better than I do.
00:34:26Let me tell you, it's tricky.
00:34:28If you pull it clean, you get away with it.
00:34:30No bloodshed, you understand?
00:34:34Say, Gene.
00:34:35Are you going to be here for a while?
00:34:40I'll be here for an hour or two.
00:34:42Good.
00:34:43I want to see you before you leave.
00:34:44All right.
00:34:45I'll be back.
00:34:46So long, fellas.
00:34:47So long, man.
00:34:48So long, man.
00:34:51You sure now that you got what I asked for?
00:34:53Absolutely, Gene.
00:34:58It certainly was a beautiful show we saw at night, wasn't it?
00:35:01Yeah, it was swell.
00:35:02The leading lady was just like you, only not so pretty.
00:35:06Well, I'm going to bed.
00:35:07Oh, don't go.
00:35:08Gene might come home any minute.
00:35:09Why don't you wait up a while longer?
00:35:11Oh, he never gets in before the crack of dawn.
00:35:13I hear him every night.
00:35:14Oh, he may change his way of living now.
00:35:16He's got a family.
00:35:17You mean us?
00:35:19Oh, there he is now.
00:35:22He doesn't ring the bell.
00:35:23He uses his latch key.
00:35:28Hello, Kitty.
00:35:29Gene here yet?
00:35:30No, I haven't.
00:35:31Well, I guess I'll come and wait for him.
00:35:34Hello, Tommy.
00:35:36You're just the lad I'm looking for.
00:35:43What do you want of me?
00:35:47You know, I feel I owe you, sir.
00:35:58You know, I guess that was kind of a mean trick I played on you.
00:36:01Pretending to hold you up and take your money.
00:36:03Pretending?
00:36:04You took it.
00:36:05But I knew who you were all the time.
00:36:07Why I was going to give it back to you the next day.
00:36:09Oh, did you recognize me?
00:36:10Why, of course.
00:36:11Just as you recognized me.
00:36:13But just to show you how much I like you kids.
00:36:16I've got the boys, you know, Gene's friends.
00:36:19Well, they're going to chip in and buy you and Nancy a swell present.
00:36:24Oh, Mr. Rocky.
00:36:26We know you kids want to be married.
00:36:28And you haven't got much money.
00:36:30Have you got an engagement ring?
00:36:32No.
00:36:33We were just going to have a wedding ring for a while.
00:36:35Well, you've got to have an engagement ring.
00:36:37We're going to give you $2,000.
00:36:43Now, that'll buy a nice big diamond engagement ring.
00:36:46And a wedding ring, besides.
00:36:47Oh, did you hear that, Tommy?
00:36:48Gee, Rocky.
00:36:49I had you all wrong.
00:36:50It's great of you and the boys to do this for us.
00:36:52No, it's nothing at all.
00:36:53We owe it to you.
00:36:54At least, I do.
00:36:57Now, I've got an idea.
00:37:00Do you know where Coleman's Jewelry Shop is just off Broadway?
00:37:02Yeah, I know Coleman's.
00:37:03Well, he'll give you $2,000.
00:37:05You go in there, oh, any time tomorrow afternoon.
00:37:07I'll drive you by if you like.
00:37:08I'll be going down there.
00:37:09Oh, thanks.
00:37:10You meet me downstairs.
00:37:11Now, don't say a word to Gina about this, will you?
00:37:13Oh, no.
00:37:14You'll surprise him, eh?
00:37:15All right.
00:37:16Good.
00:37:17Then we're pals?
00:37:18Sure.
00:37:19Sure.
00:37:20Sure.
00:37:35We're talking about you to do this for us, Rocky.
00:37:38No, it's nothing at all.
00:37:39It's almost closing time.
00:37:40You go in and ask to see some diamond wedding rings and some diamond engagement rings.
00:37:44Don't buy the first ones he shows you, will you?
00:37:45They'll be the bum ones.
00:37:46Oh, we'll only buy the best blue-white stuff.
00:37:47That's it.
00:37:48Here, here's the money.
00:37:49Don't lose it, will you?
00:37:50No, we won't.
00:37:51I'm sorry I can't go with you, but I'll see you later.
00:37:52All right, fine.
00:37:53Oh, come on.
00:37:54Come on.
00:37:55Come on, old-white stuff.
00:37:56That's it.
00:37:57Here, here's some money.
00:37:58Don't lose it, will you?
00:37:59No, we won't.
00:38:00I'm sorry I can't go with you, but I'll see you later.
00:38:02All right, fine.
00:38:23Is there something I can show you, madam?
00:38:33We're looking for an engagement ring and a wedding ring.
00:38:36Oh, I see.
00:38:39Now, here's some very lovely things that we have.
00:38:42How do you do?
00:38:43I am Mr. Coleman.
00:38:45Is there anything I can do for you?
00:38:46We're looking for an engagement ring and a wedding ring.
00:38:53These are very pretty.
00:38:59I have some very, very nice ones over there for you.
00:39:01Just one second.
00:39:01I'll be in my room.
00:39:05Stick them up.
00:39:23There's a laugh.
00:39:40They've got a picture of Lefty Moon.
00:39:42He's been dead five years.
00:39:44Here's a bit of information.
00:39:46Sam Wiseman, the clerk, proved himself a hero
00:39:48in a desperate struggle with two of the robbers.
00:39:50I'm glad you had a plug, Coleman, Rocky.
00:39:53Oh, he's an old guy.
00:39:54He's seen everything.
00:39:55You've got to hand it to Gene.
00:39:57He's playing this way out like a general.
00:39:59Listen, anybody can play him.
00:40:00But we're the guys that pull him.
00:40:01Listen, two young people,
00:40:03Miss Nancy Porter and Mr. Thomas Brown,
00:40:06who were at the store at the time of the holdup,
00:40:08are being held at the district attorney's office
00:40:10as material witnesses.
00:40:13I hope those kids don't tip off anything.
00:40:15I wonder where Gene is.
00:40:20Hello?
00:40:33Hello?
00:40:34Who is this, please?
00:40:36Stop playing those jacks, Gene.
00:40:38This is Don.
00:40:39This isn't Gene.
00:40:40This is Rocky.
00:40:41Hello, Don.
00:40:43Then come right over here to Gene's, will you?
00:40:46All right, I'll wait for you.
00:40:47Well, Mousy, aren't you going to congratulate the boys?
00:40:58What for?
00:41:00No trick to it?
00:41:01No art in it?
00:41:02There's machine work.
00:41:05That young blood, I'm glad I've got hardening of the arteries.
00:41:09Too safe for any romance.
00:41:12Safe my eye.
00:41:13I wonder if that it's the first real job I've seen pulled off in 16 years.
00:41:20Too bad you had to use your get, Rocky.
00:41:24Forget it.
00:41:43Coleman's dead.
00:41:56What's the big idea, Chief?
00:41:58I told you I didn't want any butchering.
00:42:00Now, you boys, get out of here.
00:42:01I want to talk to Rocky alone.
00:42:03Okay.
00:42:13Oh, what are you going to do when the guy starts squawking?
00:42:20Stay there and wait for the cops.
00:42:25You bumped Coleman off.
00:42:27I did.
00:42:29You yellow, white, livid.
00:42:30Oh, cut it.
00:42:31He starts to hurl.
00:42:32I told him to shut up.
00:42:33He reached for a gap.
00:42:34He didn't reach for a gap.
00:42:35Well, he lowered his hands, and this baby hasn't taken any chances.
00:42:37Didn't my instructions mean anything to you?
00:42:39What kind of a business do you think you're in?
00:42:40It's the game, isn't it?
00:42:41You yellow, Rocky.
00:42:42Well, I wasn't going to let 75 grand slip away from me for a worm like Coleman.
00:42:45Now, wait a minute.
00:42:46Something else I want to talk over with you.
00:42:48What did you mean by sending Nancy and Tommy in as the coys when I told you not to?
00:42:51It didn't hurt him, I did it.
00:42:52We wanted somebody who wouldn't be recognized.
00:42:53And you picked the one person in the world I didn't want mixed up in this business after I told you not to.
00:42:57You didn't need any decoys.
00:42:59You just wanted to hit at me where you knew it had hurt the most.
00:43:02Now, I've stood for you for a long time, but this is the end.
00:43:05By your dirty, low-down, yellow, white, livid.
00:43:07That's enough.
00:43:08You're not going to talk about me again.
00:43:09Give me that.
00:43:09Well, don't you.
00:43:10Look here, Rocky.
00:43:10You're not going to talk about me again.
00:43:14It's a cover.
00:43:15Come on.
00:43:23He's dead.
00:43:26What did you do that for, Gene?
00:43:40Well, I hear it's been a very successful job.
00:43:56Oh, now, don't be downhearted, Gene, because Coleman got shot.
00:43:59Remember, it's all in the game.
00:44:01Yes, I guess getting shot is in the game.
00:44:05Sure.
00:44:08Oh, well.
00:44:09Where's Rocky?
00:44:10You, you killed him, you dirty bully.
00:44:24You were jealous of him because he took me away from you.
00:44:26And what's more, you were afraid he was going to take the gang away from you, too.
00:44:43You knew Rocky had your number and he was going to show you what's right.
00:44:47You and your master of mine.
00:44:51You and your orders of no shooting, you crawling hypocrite.
00:44:56You used a gap all right and you killed the only boy I ever really loved.
00:45:00You can't get away with that.
00:45:01I'll make you pay and pay good.
00:45:03I can do it, too.
00:45:04You know I can do it.
00:45:05I'll have you plug for this.
00:45:06So help me.
00:45:07I'll have you plug for this.
00:45:08Come on, don't.
00:45:08Don't leave me.
00:45:09You've got to get out of here.
00:45:10You've got to get out of here.
00:45:10All right, Rocky.
00:45:12You can't get away.
00:45:14Rocky was one of the gang.
00:45:15You have no right to give it to him.
00:45:16You'll have to answer to the gang for this.
00:45:19You get the boys together and I'll be there at the club tonight.
00:45:22On your word?
00:45:24I'll be there at one o'clock.
00:45:25My word.
00:45:26All right.
00:45:29What are they going to do to you?
00:45:32I want you kids to go upstairs.
00:45:34You do that for me, please.
00:45:35We want to have a talk with Matt now, later.
00:45:38I didn't want you mixed up in that job today.
00:45:40Oh, I know, but what are they going to do to you?
00:45:42They mustn't.
00:45:43They can't.
00:45:44Would it mean so much to you?
00:45:47Oh, Gene, I don't want anything to happen to you.
00:45:50I feel as if you needed me.
00:45:52Oh, I'd do anything to help you.
00:45:55You can help me most by going upstairs now.
00:45:58All right, Gene.
00:46:02Oh, whatever you are, you'll always be wonderful to me.
00:46:06You're going to try you, eh?
00:46:15They ain't going to bump you off like they did Pinky.
00:46:19Well, I hope not.
00:46:20Why don't you make a getaway, Gene.
00:46:24I'll go with you.
00:46:25Shame of you, Moussa.
00:46:27You did the right thing in bumping that butcher off.
00:46:31But you'll have a hard time making the gang believe it.
00:46:35They liked Rocky, so they did.
00:46:37Well, I'll have to worry about that.
00:46:42What about the kid?
00:46:45Bring her down there tonight.
00:46:48Bring them both down.
00:46:49I'll beat this, Moussa.
00:46:55I've got to beat it now.
00:47:14Hello.
00:47:14Hello.
00:47:15Hi.
00:47:16What's this meeting for?
00:47:18I was keeping an important date when I got you out of the way.
00:47:20This is the most important date you've had for a long time.
00:47:24We're trying, Gene, for the killing of Rocky.
00:47:28What are you doing?
00:47:29Get the wrong way.
00:47:30Get the wrong way.
00:47:31Get the wrong way.
00:47:31Get the wrong way.
00:47:32Get the wrong way.
00:47:33Get the wrong way.
00:47:34Get the wrong way.
00:47:39Now, listen here, Moussa.
00:47:40What did you bring those kids here for?
00:47:41The boss is yours.
00:47:44Sit down.
00:47:44Well, it's one o'clock and he isn't here yet.
00:47:49Yeah.
00:47:51That's time to catch an outgoing train.
00:47:53Yes, you won't say that.
00:47:55After all, Gene did for you, no other way to go.
00:47:58Listen here, Moussa.
00:47:59Now, fight down.
00:48:01Don't you guys get nervous.
00:48:03Gene will be here all right, all right.
00:48:04Come on.
00:48:11She had a guy over there.
00:48:13Pokey Dan.
00:48:14Spent six months digging his way out of Sing Sing.
00:48:18By a miscalculation, came up in the warden's office.
00:48:22Yeah.
00:48:28How are you?
00:48:30I'm all right, how are you?
00:48:34They're checking him for a ride tonight.
00:49:04Let's go.
00:49:25Well, I'm sorry I'm late.
00:49:27Sit down, Gene. Let's get your business.
00:49:29No objection to my standing, is there?
00:49:32Gene, we're going to give you a fair trial.
00:49:34But if the gang decide against you, I guess you know what that means.
00:49:37I know.
00:49:38Rocky was the most popular and useful member of this gang.
00:49:41And you had no right to shoot him down in cold blood just because you had a grudge against him.
00:49:45Well, why don't you give him a dose of his own medicine?
00:49:47Show him how a chunk of cold lead feels.
00:49:49Gene!
00:49:50Now, just a minute. You haven't given me a chance to talk.
00:49:53Yeah, well, why should you think? You shot him, didn't you?
00:49:56Wait a minute. Well, let's see what you have to say, Gene.
00:49:59Well, an opening.
00:50:01I just want to say that after looking this crowd over,
00:50:06New York is comparatively safe tonight.
00:50:11You're in here, too.
00:50:13Now, let me remind you.
00:50:16Since I've been the head of this organization, there's only been one man sent up.
00:50:21Think that over.
00:50:26Before I took hold of you and organized you,
00:50:29if you don't mind my saying so, what were you?
00:50:33Or possibly you've forgotten?
00:50:34Oh, may I inquire what that has to do with what we're here for?
00:50:37It just has this to do with it.
00:50:38My leadership has been competent. I may even say brilliant.
00:50:41And I'll tell you why.
00:50:43I've always insisted that when you go on a job, you cut away with full hands but clean ones, not smeared with blood.
00:50:49Rocky knew that I was absolutely against killing, yet he did it uselessly just because he was a butcher.
00:50:55I've tried to make you use your brain.
00:50:57Anybody can use a gap and burn for it.
00:51:00We've always been successful because we respected human life and thought faster than the other fellow.
00:51:06And most of that fast thinking has been on my part.
00:51:09This nightclub is my idea. I organize it, operate it.
00:51:13It showed a clean profit besides giving us a safe meeting place.
00:51:16But lately, as you all know, I wanted to quit the game entirely.
00:51:21Something came into my life that...
00:51:25Well, as the fiction writers put it, something made me want to go straight.
00:51:29Oh, don't listen to him.
00:51:31He'll try to talk you into believing that Rocky was a traitor.
00:51:33He was.
00:51:34He was always a killer.
00:51:35And when I call him for disobeying orders, he pulled a gat on me.
00:51:38Why don't you realize that when he shot Coleman, he put you all in the shadow of the chair?
00:51:42You're lying. I was there.
00:51:44You shot him down cold like a dog.
00:51:46Oh, shut up. You wasn't there.
00:51:48Steady, Martin.
00:51:49Now, just a minute. I think we're getting away from the main issue.
00:51:52Which is, why did I shoot Rocky?
00:51:55Yes, why did you shoot?
00:51:57I shot him in self-defense.
00:51:59You don't believe that, do you, Martin?
00:52:00Stop, stop, stop, stop.
00:52:02Watch that door, Martin.
00:52:22Wrong lights.
00:52:23There's a switch.
00:52:27I'm here.
00:52:28That's where they need to get away.
00:52:29Watch them, boys.
00:52:30Watch it, boys.
00:52:31Go get them, boys, and report back to me on the outside.
00:52:33That's how they go with me.
00:52:39What's the big idea?
00:52:41Policemen.
00:52:46Just a moment.
00:52:47You ladies and gentlemen leave this restaurant as quietly as possible.
00:52:50You boys pair out, too.
00:53:02Yes.
00:53:05Well, there's nobody here we want.
00:53:06The rest of the boys come in the back.
00:53:07They're looking around upstairs.
00:53:08Nobody here at all, sir.
00:53:09They're not, huh?
00:53:10Well, I'm gonna look for myself.
00:53:20I'm gonna look for myself.
00:53:21I'm gonna look for myself.
00:53:26Hello.
00:53:27What are you doing here?
00:53:29We didn't do anything.
00:53:30We were just here watching the...
00:53:31Wait a minute.
00:53:32Can you beat that?
00:53:33They're the two kids we picked up at Coleman's place.
00:53:35Something wrong here.
00:53:36Mm-hmm.
00:53:37Take them downtown.
00:53:41Well, I know we're on the right track now.
00:53:42If I can get that guy, Rocky Mosby.
00:53:43Here, boys.
00:53:44Take these two birds downtown.
00:53:45Oh, I see.
00:53:47You wouldn't think a couple of kids like that would be mixed up with a bunch of gunmen?
00:53:50Well, they start young these days.
00:53:51Yes.
00:53:52Yes.
00:53:53Yes.
00:53:54Yes.
00:53:55Yes.
00:53:56Yes.
00:53:57Yes.
00:53:58Yes.
00:53:59Yes.
00:54:00Yes.
00:54:01Yes.
00:54:02Yes.
00:54:03Yes.
00:54:04Yes.
00:54:12Some gang all right.
00:54:13They might as well be deaf and dumb for all you can get out of them.
00:54:16Can't somebody get something out of those two kids?
00:54:18Nothing any of them says is worth a hoot.
00:54:20I want to land this bird Fenmore for murder and nothing less.
00:54:24I thought I could make the old guy cough up.
00:54:26Uh, what's his name?
00:54:28The mouse.
00:54:29Yeah.
00:54:30But he wouldn't smell.
00:54:31He was cagier than any of them.
00:54:32Bill has a boy in there trying to make him talk.
00:54:34They know the truth if we can get it out of them.
00:54:36Well, all they'll admit is that they were at Coleman's before the hold-up.
00:54:41And they insist that they were looking for wedding rings and nobody sent them.
00:54:47Bring that boy in here.
00:54:49They're not the place out of them.
00:54:50No, no, no, no.
00:54:53They don't agree.
00:54:58Come.
00:54:59Come.
00:55:00Come.
00:55:01Sit down over there.
00:55:05I can't stand it. I can't stand it.
00:55:12I've told you everything I know.
00:55:14Well, well, now, now.
00:55:17You've got something you can tell the district attorney, haven't you?
00:55:20You ready to tell me who sent you to Coleman's?
00:55:23His name was Rocky.
00:55:25That's the only name we knew.
00:55:27That's the fellow we found dead in Thinmore's apartment, isn't it?
00:55:30Yes.
00:55:31You know Gene Thinmore?
00:55:33No.
00:55:34You know who killed Coleman?
00:55:34Yes, it was Rocky.
00:55:38And who killed Rocky?
00:55:40I don't know.
00:55:42Yes, you do too. It was Gene Thinmore.
00:55:48Your girlfriend, they just said so.
00:55:50No, I didn't. Don't believe him, Tommy.
00:55:53This Rocky was a member of Gene Thinmore's gang, wasn't he?
00:55:56I don't know.
00:55:58Say, who took you to the club last night?
00:56:01Tommy.
00:56:01Hey, you didn't happen to see Gene Thinmore when you were there, did you?
00:56:06No.
00:56:07And you wouldn't know if you saw him.
00:56:09No, no, I don't know him.
00:56:10You do know that you're implicated in the Coleman murder, don't you?
00:56:13You're accessories.
00:56:14And an accessory pays the penalty just the same as a murderer.
00:56:17We didn't have anything to do with it, I tell you.
00:56:19I know you're telling me, but I don't believe you.
00:56:21I didn't believe you when I had you down here after the holdup, and I don't believe you now.
00:56:26Now, listen here, you kids.
00:56:28If you want to come clean with me and tell me who planned the Coleman holdup,
00:56:32and the names of Rocky's pals,
00:56:34well, I'll promise to let you off easy.
00:56:37Why, maybe I can get you off altogether.
00:56:38All I know is Rocky gave us money to buy an engagement and a wedding ring.
00:56:42Come on, take them out of here.
00:56:44Go on.
00:56:44Go ahead.
00:56:49They're a couple of saps.
00:56:51Go into the electric chair to protect their cheap crook,
00:56:53and they'll only be caught sooner or later anyway.
00:56:55Go on, take them out.
00:56:56Get everything they said?
00:57:09Everything.
00:57:10Good.
00:57:10I'll be getting out and they'll get their signatures.
00:57:21We got him, Inspector.
00:57:22Where did you find him?
00:57:23In his apartment, taking a bath.
00:57:25Any signs about the place?
00:57:26No, sir.
00:57:26No signs.
00:57:27He's a cool guy.
00:57:28He never batted an eye when we told him he was wanted for murder.
00:57:31Bring him in.
00:57:32Yes, sir.
00:57:41How do you do, Eugene?
00:57:43Why so formal call me Gene.
00:57:46Thanks.
00:57:48You know, eventually I always meet the distinguished members of your profession.
00:57:54Thanks for the compliment.
00:57:55Just a moment.
00:57:56Just a moment.
00:58:02Bill.
00:58:09And, Maura, I wonder if you happen to know these two youngsters.
00:58:15No, I don't.
00:58:17You're quite sure?
00:58:17You better take a closer look.
00:58:18You better take a closer look.
00:58:27Positive.
00:58:31Tommy, this is the gentleman I referred to, Mr. Fenmore.
00:58:34Look at him.
00:58:35Look at him.
00:58:38That's it.
00:58:39You ever seen him before?
00:58:40No.
00:58:41No.
00:58:44Never.
00:58:45No.
00:58:49Young lady, perhaps you know this gentleman.
00:58:51No, sir.
00:58:52No, sir.
00:59:01Now, I want you two to fix your eyes on one another.
00:59:04And perhaps you'll recall having met before.
00:59:06Mr. Fenmore.
00:59:18All right, pick him up.
00:59:19Sit down, Mr. Fenmore.
00:59:21Just a minute.
00:59:22You know, when two important men get together, the things they say might startle the world.
00:59:38I just want to see if there are any stenographers, their dictaphone's tucked away.
00:59:39Yeah, very prudent of you.
00:59:40Ned, important men must be caught up.
00:59:41Would you mind taking those off?
00:59:42I'd like to have a free hand in the conversation.
00:59:43Charlie, we're going to have a nice little private talk.
00:59:45Sit down.
00:59:46I'm sorry.
00:59:47I'm sorry.
00:59:48I'm sorry.
00:59:49I'm sorry.
00:59:50I'm sorry.
00:59:51I'm sorry.
00:59:52I'm sorry.
00:59:53I'm sorry.
00:59:54I'm sorry.
00:59:55I'm sorry.
00:59:56I'm sorry.
00:59:57I'm sorry.
00:59:58I'm sorry.
00:59:59I'm sorry.
01:00:00I'm sorry.
01:00:01I'm sorry.
01:00:02I'm sorry.
01:00:03I'm sorry.
01:00:04I'm sorry.
01:00:05I'm sorry.
01:00:06I'm sorry.
01:00:07Sit down.
01:00:08Thanks.
01:00:15You know, I never saw you before tonight.
01:00:17Yeah?
01:00:18Thought you were funny pulling that stunt on me, huh?
01:00:22You mean tonight at the club?
01:00:24Yeah.
01:00:25Yeah.
01:00:26Well, I've got you, Fenmore.
01:00:28And I'm going to send you to the chair.
01:00:30Yeah?
01:00:31Well, that's a nice prospect.
01:00:33How are you going to do it?
01:00:34I've got the goods on you.
01:00:35Well, if you had the goods on me, you wouldn't be talking to me now.
01:00:38You planned the Coleman holdup.
01:00:39Why don't you think so?
01:00:40It was so clever, Gene.
01:00:42It took a brain like yours to plan it.
01:00:44Well, if that's the goods you have on me, I think you'd better have something else.
01:00:47You know, Fenmore?
01:00:48While you've been running around with a lot of nice people, I've known all along that you were the leader of the worst band of gorillas in the city.
01:00:55I've been throwing lawsuits at you for some time.
01:00:57I caught an arm.
01:00:59I caught a leg.
01:01:00But what I wanted was your neck.
01:01:03Somehow these gorillas of yours wouldn't commit murder.
01:01:06But this time, they did.
01:01:08And so you see, I've at last got your neck.
01:01:12Where are you driving at?
01:01:13I want you to sign a confession that you planned the Coleman holdup.
01:01:17Oh, is that all?
01:01:18That's all.
01:01:19Just a scratch of the pen, Gene.
01:01:21Just a scratch of the pen.
01:01:22Send myself to the chair.
01:01:23Oh, that is simple, isn't it?
01:01:25You know, Gene, the real tragedy is not Rocky or Coleman, but these two young people.
01:01:32You mean the young people I saw here tonight?
01:01:34Yeah.
01:01:35Well, what about them?
01:01:36Oh, quit stalling.
01:01:37You know all about them.
01:01:38But I don't.
01:01:39And they're just as guilty of murder as your pal, Rocky, who did the actual shooting.
01:01:43And I'm going to convict them.
01:01:45Well, what jury would convict those two kids?
01:01:47Well, the girl might get off of the stretch.
01:01:49But the boy's going to the chair with you and the rest of the gangsters we nab tonight just as sure as shooting.
01:01:57Do you know Dorothy Palmer?
01:01:59Who?
01:02:00Dorothy Palmer.
01:02:02No.
01:02:03No?
01:02:04No.
01:02:05Well, she was your girl once.
01:02:08And she was pretty fond of your friend, Rocky.
01:02:11We found his body tonight in your apartment after the raid.
01:02:14You killed him, didn't you?
01:02:16Well, if I did, I certainly don't remember it.
01:02:18Well, don't worry.
01:02:19The police department's already given you a vote of thanks for that.
01:02:22But I'm going to convict you for the murder of Coleman, too.
01:02:25Yeah, well, how are you going to do it?
01:02:26Well, what's your evidence?
01:02:27Carloads supplied by three star witnesses who have turned the state's evidence.
01:02:32You don't mind if I don't believe you.
01:02:33No, it's all right.
01:02:35I'm going to prove it to you.
01:02:40Just a moment.
01:02:43One of the state's star witnesses, your former sweetheart.
01:02:46I don't know the lady.
01:02:47You don't know me, Jean.
01:02:48Oh, don't make me laugh.
01:02:49Now, listen, I helped land you, and I'm glad of it.
01:02:50And unless you have me bumped off, I'll be reading what you ate for your last meal in Sing Sing.
01:02:53Oh, Miss Hall, Miss Hall, please.
01:02:54That's enough.
01:02:56Well, good-bye, Jean.
01:02:57And when you see him, give my love to Rocky.
01:03:00Oh, Miss Hall, Miss Hall, please.
01:03:01That's enough.
01:03:03Well, good-bye, Jean.
01:03:04And when you see him, give my love to Rocky.
01:03:08Well, you played all right, but one ace won't beat me.
01:03:11All right, I'll play a trump ace.
01:03:13The county is a good one, and we're going to have a good one, but he's not a good one.
01:03:16Oh, I'm not a good one.
01:03:17That's a good one.
01:03:18Oh, Miss Hall, Miss Hall, please.
01:03:19That's enough.
01:03:21Goodbye, Jean, and when you see him, give my love to Rocky.
01:03:30Well, is that enough?
01:03:31Well, you played all right.
01:03:33But one ace won't beat me.
01:03:34All right.
01:03:35I'll play a trump ace.
01:03:37The kids have already admitted that Rocky sent them on the job,
01:03:40and that Rocky killed Coleman.
01:03:42They've signed a confession.
01:03:46You mean to say those kids confessed to being accessories?
01:03:50Read it.
01:03:55Maybe they didn't know what they were doing when they went to Coleman.
01:03:57Well, it'll be pretty hard to make a jury believe that.
01:04:02Can I see them a minute?
01:04:03Sure.
01:04:07Come on.
01:04:21Did you sign that confession?
01:04:22Yes.
01:04:23Yes, we signed it.
01:04:24I'll leave you folks alone to talk it over.
01:04:31You got us into this. Get us out of it.
01:04:33Shh.
01:04:34The man is a stranger to us. We've never seen him before.
01:04:37I'm very sorry.
01:04:38Words won't do us any good. Get us out of this, won't you?
01:04:41I'll try.
01:04:42All you have to do is tell them we were innocent.
01:04:44Tell them Rocky put up a job on us.
01:04:45Yes, Gene, all you have to say is you knew Rocky sent us into that store
01:04:48without telling us there was going to be a holdup.
01:04:50Then they'd let us go.
01:04:51That wouldn't incriminate you any, would it?
01:04:53Why, certainly not.
01:04:54Oh, Gene, they mustn't do anything to tell me if they did.
01:04:56I couldn't live without him.
01:05:13A little statement I prepared for you, Gene. Read it.
01:05:15Why'd you go to all that trouble for? You know I won't sign it.
01:05:21You won't sign it, huh?
01:05:23Not unless you're able to offer me something very attractive.
01:05:26What do you want?
01:05:28I want to see you alone.
01:05:30Well, what is it?
01:05:46I want the absolute unconditional freedom of those two youngsters.
01:05:49They're not even to be mentioned in the case.
01:05:50They are going up, and so are you.
01:05:52Oh, yes, I am.
01:05:54I'll fight this till doomsday.
01:05:56Jimmies and guns aren't the only weapons I have.
01:05:58There's a lot of good lawyers in this town that will keep me out of jail for a hundred thousand bucks.
01:06:02Maybe you're right, but I'll take a chance on it.
01:06:05I'll tell you what I'll do with you, Mr. District Attorney.
01:06:08I'll admit everything and take the rap.
01:06:11If you let those kids go.
01:06:18All right.
01:06:19I'll give you a letter that will guarantee their freedom.
01:06:21That they're innocent victims.
01:06:24If you'll sign that.
01:06:25I'll sign it when I get you a guarantee.
01:06:30Okay.
01:06:33Do you mind if I go in there and see the kids?
01:06:35It's all right.
01:06:36Well, Charlie.
01:06:39Don't worry. It'll be all right, Mr. District.
01:06:42Just a minute.
01:06:55You always have good pens here.
01:07:09Charlie, I want you to witness that.
01:07:13Have you got Mousy here?
01:07:14Yes. He's just outside.
01:07:16Do you mind if I see him?
01:07:17Hmm.
01:07:18Put that in the vault and tell Mousy to come in here.
01:07:20Hmm.
01:07:42Well, there's your freedom, kid.
01:07:44You youngsters, go on home now.
01:07:47I'm going to keep an eye on you.
01:07:48I might need you.
01:07:49You're enough to leave the city.
01:07:50You understand?
01:07:51Yes, sir.
01:07:52Goodbye, Gene.
01:07:53Goodbye, Tommy.
01:07:56Goodbye, Gene.
01:07:58Goodbye, Nancy.
01:07:59Everything's all right now, isn't it?
01:08:01Yes, of course it's all right.
01:08:03Nothing will happen to you.
01:08:05No, nothing's going to happen to me.
01:08:06He knows you didn't have anything to do with it, doesn't he?
01:08:09Why, of course he knows it has nothing to do with it.
01:08:13Now, you go on home and I'll call you up later at the house.
01:08:16All right.
01:08:17Goodbye, Gene.
01:08:18Goodbye, Nancy.
01:08:29I want you to do me a favor, Mousy.
01:08:31Anything, Chief?
01:08:33I want you to look after those kids for me.
01:08:39Understand?
01:08:41Sure, Chief.
01:08:42But how can I?
01:08:44You're going out of here.
01:08:47I'll fix it all up with my lawyer this morning.
01:08:51But I want to know that they're well taken care of.
01:08:55Aren't you going out too?
01:08:59Not as soon as you are.
01:09:01I know I can depend on you, Mousy.
01:09:06And it'll make me feel better if...
01:09:09she's all right.
01:09:12I got you, boy.
01:09:14You can count on me...
01:09:17till they carry me out.
01:09:32You're a pretty regular fellow, Gene.
01:09:35Too bad you couldn't have done something better than lead a bunch of crooks.
01:09:38You know, I've been connected with the police department for a number of years.
01:09:41And I've seen the best of them come and go.
01:09:44And you can't get away with it.
01:09:46It's always a losing game.
01:09:49Well, at least you owe my profession a debt of gratitude.
01:09:55If it wasn't for men like me...
01:09:58there wouldn't be any necessity for men like you.
01:10:01like you.
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